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Saturday, May 31, 2008

Obama Quits Church

Realizing at long last that the 4-ring circus at Chicago's Trinity Unity Church of Christ wasn't going to close between now and November, Barack Obama had no choice but to sever his connection to the church that Rev. Jeremiah Wright built. It was not an easy decision for him to make as reflected in the months of soul-searching before finally figuring out what everybody else had long ago concluded -- there was no way that Trinity United would ever metamorphose into a mainstream church acceptable to more than ten percent of Americans. On the contrary, its bizarreries only increased with time and now it was even importing crackpots from other denominations to grace its tabernacle.

Still, this church was his "spiritual home" and its pastor emeritus had been the mentor who forged his social conscience and inducted him into Christianity: we might add, a proto-Marxist social conscience and a Christianity informed by liberation theology, the Marxist variant of Christianity.

There was little stability in Barack Obama's early life. Shuttled from Hawaii to Indonesia, from mother to grandparents, from a Muslim madrassa to a Catholic school, uncertain of who he was, with a father who abandoned him at birth and no black role model or any black friends, Barack Obama craved a sense of belonging, tradition, stability and continuity in his adult life. Hence he attended the same church for 20 years; hence he has been attended by the same physician for 20 years. It must have been traumatic indeed for him to resign from Trinity United, the bedrock of his newly-forged identity, where he became everything he is today, alas.

Obama experienced the same difficulty disassociating himself from his church as he had earlier distancing himself from his longtime minister. At first, he said that he would no more disown Rev. Wright than the grandmother who raised him. And now he is making it clear that despite his resignation: "I'm not denouncing the church, and I am not interested in people who want me to denounce the church. It's not a church worth denouncing." He means, of course, that it's not deserving of denunciation. No doubt, like Rev. Wright, the church or its new minister will do something in the next 6 months that will obliged Obama to denounce it regardless of his having already publicly severed his connection to it or vowed never to denounce it.

It is worth noting that his letter of resignation was written by his wife and is signed first by her. Make of that what you will. She is certainly the more dominant personality, the strong-willed and well-connected spouse that Rev. Wright introduced to Obama (or, some say, chose for him). She is the more radical of the two as Hillary was once more radical than Bill, and, like Hillary in 1992, she has her eye on the main chance and is as influential in her spouse's campaign.

Obama can resign from Trinity United but he is still what that church made him. And, ultimately, of course, he can't resign from himself.

Yes Vana it was a nice Victory for MRS Hill 68-32. It was a blowout victory. Los Puertorriqueños tradicionalmente han sido loyal to the Clinton clan. Hay unas raices muy fuertes. Recuerde she is the Senator of over 5 million Puerto Ricans in NYC. Estuvo aqui as a first lady in 1989 after Hugo Hurricane. 90% of Puertorricans did not know Obama as late as 3 weeks agoStill Obama is closer to the nomination , thanks to the 14 Puerto Rican votes he obtained and for that he is grateful

I am certain that there will be no need to close this blog. Obama will not win in November. His primary victories have been for the most part in states which no Democrat candidate has carried in 20 years. The nomination of Obama would be a heaven-sent boom for the Republican Party.

In the wake of Bush's calamitous tenure there would be absolutely no chance that a Republican could hold the White House except for Barack Obama.

Looking forward to 2012 and assuming that the prophecies of doom from various religions and philosophies of the world do not come to pass that same year, we might very well be looking at Michelle Obama the Democratic Party candidate for her party's nomination to run against whomever the GOP nominee might be.

Allyson, I've deleted your comment. Is this more rumor-mongering? Are there any other Chicago residents out there who have heard this? God knows I don't want this man as my President, but making these scurrilous allegations is pretty low. Unless they can be proven with evidence I'm not willing to allow this on the site.

"Poor lonely Obama. If he continues to sever his ties with all of his associates from the quinta columna, he will have no more old LEFT friends."The guy is a manipulator and a political animal, and now he has disavowed his chucrch of 20 years and his friends here as good political expedient move this late in the game. But the voters will see through that ploy clearly. One cannot attend a church for 20 years where the pastor has been saying these things, and still claim that he never heard them. And as MAT said, the guy has won primaries in states where a democrat has never won a presidential contest. Big deal. One cannot win the presidency with primary votes. The test is in November and there he is on the losing side. When the voters realize that this guy is a phony and not trustworthy on the very important issue of national security, he is doomed.

I almost forgot. We were a bit short on donations vs. expenses for this year's Cuba Nostalgia Convention, so, if you didnt get a chance to drop a few bucks in the till, please consider doing so now. Gracias.

Those of you interested in reading the comment that was deleted by George Moneo on June 1 because it supposedly made "scurrilous" accusations against Barack Obama may find it reproduced in toto at Right Wing Nut House. It's under the post "Obama -- the Cowardly Lion" and is comment #12 in the thread: